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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.

The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.

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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong began resigning Thursday to protest the expulsion of four other lawmakers, heightening a conflict with Beijing over the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's future. Pro-democracy activists say China's ruling Communist Party, which has tightened control in Hong Kong in response to demands for more democracy, is destroying the civil liberties and rights that were promised the territory when Britain returned it to China in 1997. The 15 remaining lawmakers in the pro-democracy bloc said Wednesday they will resign en masse after China's central government passed a resolution this […]

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Kenya’s tourism sector has been showing massive growth in the last decade. The tourism sector has risen to become the second-largest foreign exchange earner for the country despite recent terrorism threats and other incidents of insecurity. Also, the tourism and travel sector contributed 3.7% to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016 and around...

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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom on Wednesday became the fifth country in the world to record more than 50,000 coronavirus-related deaths, a level that one of the nation's leading doctors says 'should never have been reached.' Figures from the British government showed that 595 more people in the country died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus, the highest daily number since May. The figure took the U.K.'s total death toll from the pandemic to 50,365. The U.K, which has the highest virus-related death toll in Europe, joins the United States, Brazil, […]

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MAHEBOURG LAGOON, Mauritius - Greenpeace has published an open letter in Mauritius' biggest newspaper slamming the government for its handling of the disastrous MV Wakashio oil spill, a Japanese ship. The disaster happened three months [...]

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Here's a quick glance at what the weather forecast holds in store across all the South African provinces. Stay warm or keep cool.

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Khayelitsha's residents woke up to a fiery day of protests on Thursday caused apparently by requests for recently occupied plots to get toilets and water for those who now live there.

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SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Residents of flood-prone New Market and neighbouring upland communities in north-western St Elizabeth and eastern Westmoreland, as well as low-lying New River close to Santa Cruz, are fervently praying and hoping that weather forecasters are wrong. Jamaica's Meteorological Office says there is a good chance of heavy, persistent rain associated with unstable weather in the northern Caribbean over the next few days.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a lockdown address to the nation on Wednesday night - and he came equipped with a major announcement on alcohol.

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